The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail

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The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
        A FOX caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail.
        Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule
        to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other
        Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making
        up for his own deprivation.
        He assembled a good many Foxes and
        publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they
        would not only look much better without them, but that they would
        get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great
        inconvenience.
        One of them interrupting him said, "If you had
        not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus
        counsel us."